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How to Recover A Troubled Program

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Technical failure: this creates a program integration risk as what you are building might not sit in the organization’s architecture any longer. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity.

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7 warning signs that you (and your team) are overworked

Planio

When you and your team get overworked, your productivity — along with your mental and physical health — decline. In the worst case scenarios, overwork can cause teams to collapse, projects to fail, and individuals to go looking for better work environments. Teams aren’t replacing employees who leave. You get distracted easily 4.

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

Scrum.org

The push to deliver more features to users often means we take short cuts, take on tech debt and reduce time spent maintaining the system. Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? BAU activities means many things to many people, KTLO, Maintenance, Enablers, sustainment and DevOps.

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Dependency Management – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Scrum.org

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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Resource Forecasting Guide for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Managing resources in professional services firms is crucial for maintaining sustainability and achieving anticipated employee performance goals. Suppose a project manager has an upcoming project for website development and design. Let’s consider an example of resource forecasting in project management.

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SWOT analysis in project management: definition, instruction & example

Inloox

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. Understanding these strengths allows the project team to target them in order to maximize the project's chances of success.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation.